HHG Awards - Consistent Best of Delaware Winners
Harry’s Savoy Grill
- Best Place to Eat Steak in DE
- Best Restaurant in North Wilmington
- Best Fine Dining – Upstate
- Best Special Occasion Restaurant – Upstate
Kid Shelleen’s Charcoal House & Saloon
- Best Brunch
- Best Restaurant in Trolley Square
- Best Family-Friendly Restaurant – Upstate
Xavier Teixido
Owner
xat@harrys-savoy.com
Xavier Teixido’s restaurant career has taken him from the Brandywine Racetrack in Wilmington to Commander’s Palace in New Orleans and back to Wilmington, where he purchased Harry’s Savoy Grill in 1993. With a $3 million ballroom addition opened in 1998, Harry’s became a Brandywine Hundred favorite for fine dining as well as weddings and other special events. In 2003, Xavier took the Harry’s name and reputation to a third venture, opening Harry’s Seafood Grill on Wilmington’s Riverfront. In 2010, he and partners David Banks and Kelly O’Hanlon purchased Kid Shelleen’s in Trolley Square. A former president of the Delaware Restaurant Association and Delaware Restaurateur of the Year for 1999, Xavier brought attention to the First State when he served as chairman of the National Restaurant Association (2002-2003) and chaired the Board of Trustees of the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (2011-2012). He is also an advocate for the restaurant industry in Delaware, serving on the state’s Tourism Advisory Board and the University of Delaware Hotel Restaurant Institutional Management (HRIM) Advisory Board. In March of 2017, Xavier was awarded the Thad and Alice Eure Ambassador of Hospitality Award by the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation. He is active in many charitable causes and has established a culture of community service at Harry’s which offers both encouragement and bonuses to those employees who give their time to serve the community.